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OREGON CITY COURIER, OREGON CITY, OREGON, THURSDAY, MARCH 10, 1916,
OREGON CITY COURIER
Published Thursdays from the Courier Building, Eighth Street, and entered
in the Postoffice at Oregon City, Ore., as 2nd class mail matter .
3. R. BROWN
Editor and Publisher
Subscription Price $1.50.
C. W. ROBEY
Business Manager
Telephones, Pacific 51; Home A-51.
THIS PAPER REPRESENTED FOR FOREIGN
ADVERTISING BY THE
GENERAL OFFICES
NEW YORK AND CHICAGO
BRANCHES IN ALL THE PRINCIPAL CITIES
BAIT FOR SUCKERS
This is the time of the year when
the political candidate seeks a cute
and catching phrase to place along
side his name on the ballot. This
phrase is designed to catch the eye
of the careless voter, and cause him
or her to put his X where it will help
the candidate.
"Lower taxes," "a square deal,"
"Integrity to the trust of office,"
"For the people," and such slogans
are being nailed down by ambitious
candidates. And in nine cases out of
ten these slogans are merely sucker
bait.
Clackamas county this coming elec
tion will be asked to re-elect many of
its officers and offlcials. But the pret
ty phrasing on the ballot is not the
place to look for the record of these
candidates who are desirous of still
hanging on to their place on the pay
roll. The place to look to see whether
or not candidates should be trusted
with a second term is at the record
these officials have already made.
Some of the candidates have made
excellent records. And some of
them have not. The same applies
to candidates who have had no prev
ious experience. In business or pro
fessional lifo some of these candi
dates have made good records. And
some of them have not. The voter
should forget the catchy slogans that
will grace election cards and the bal
lot, and should look at the actual
records the candidates have made.
There is going to be a lot of hulla
baloo , this olection about economy.
There are going to be some candidates
who will really work for economy if
they get into office, and there are go
ing to be some who will forget all
about economy, once they get into
power. With candidates who have no
previous record, it may be hard to
decide as to their sincerity of inten
tions. But candidates who are already
holding office, or who have held office
in the past, should not be hard to
size up.
When Bill Spivets writes you that
he wants to go back to Salem again
and "make laws for the people," don't
worry about the promises in his let
ter. See what he did when he was'at
Salem before. If he voted for good
bills and fought top-heavy appropria
tions, he will be a good man to send
back, But if, when he was there be
fore, he was "absent" when the vote
was taken on important measures, and
if he was in the gang that planned
the looting of the tuxpayers, he will
not be a good man to send back. It
is easy to go to the record and see
what these former office-holders have
done; and as for those who are now
holding office and who seek another
term, it is far easier to weigh their
qualifications.
Voters should be guided largely
this year by past performances. If
records are diligently looked into, if
candidates are asked to explain why
they did this or that, if the voters
consider well the records mudo then
next year we should have no yelping
about high taxes.
Look over the field, neighbor, and
see what you think of the men who
want to be allowed to run your af
fairs again for you. And vote for the
ones that you think will run public
business as they would a private busi
ness. It is easy to pick good men,
when one disregards the campaign
sucker bait and relies on facts and
records.
"weeks" and "days" that we have had,
we are supposed to become better ac
quainted with babies during this
week, to learn of their working parts,
their superiority to other similar lines
of goods, such as poodles, spaniels,
pet monkeys and tame lizzards, and
generally to "talk baby."
However, the Courier isn't going
to do it. In the first place this pa
per comes out on Thursday, when
"baby week" will be more than half
gone; and in the second place we
think there is something more appro
priate for consideration during what
is left of "baby week" than mere ba
bies. So for "baby week" the Courier
would like to talk, quite briefly, about
boys and girls. Most boys and girjs
were babies once, we believe, so we
are on an allied subject. Boys and
girls are divided largely Into two
classes those who are happy and
healthy, and those who are the vic
tims of stingy communities and the
people who compose these communi
ties. Some boys and girls have every
opportunity to enjoy public play
grounds, some of them live in towns
or cities where there are reacreation
centers. In these recreation centers
interesting lectures are delivered on
rainy afternoons, indoor games are
played in winter, gymnasium exer
cise is part of the program, and some
times there are swimming pools, too.
Then there are those other boys
and girls who live in towns and cities
that have no parks, no playgrounds
and no recreation centers; in towns
where fear of an extra mill tax is so
great that nobody gives a whoop for
the boys and girls. We know of one
town, lor instance, where an "econ
omy" council wouldn't even fix up a
tennis court for the boys and girls,
because it would cost fifteen dollars.
In this same town the boys and girls
have no place to go; and so a whole
lot of them go to the bow-wows. And
when they grow up and become men
and women they won't look back on
their childhood days with very much
joy. When they grow up they'll be
wise enough to know who cheated
them out of their birthright, just be
cause of a false idea of economy, and
they will curse more or less silently
the people responsible for depriving
them of the pleasures and open air
fun that every boy and girl and ought
to have. And maybe if a "baby
week" is launched about that time,
they'll think of something that might
be "agitated" during that week.
This is "baby week" in Oregon City
and in Clackamas county. What do
you think ought to be discussed?
Modified milk and patent safety-pins ?
Or do you think some good might be
done if the needs of boys and girls
were discussed for most of these
babies that this "week" is for are go
ing to be boys and girls before very
long.
IT PAYS TO ADVERTISE
FOLLOWING -A FAD
It is populur these days to have
"weeks" and "days." We have had
"electric week," we have had var
ious "wetka" given to the sale of
certain brands of coffee, stockings
and canned norp?; wo have had "sal
mon day," "apple d ly," "cigar day,"
and a host of other days.
And right now we have with us
"baby week."
The Courier has been somewhat ne
glected by the press agents who have
been fixing up "baby week" for the
public, so we may perhaps be a trifle
hazy as to just whut we are suppoe-
Among other things, the Courier is
trying to do all that it can for the
general prosperity of Clackamas
county folk. The Courier has given
all the support that it could to the
"buy it at home" movement. It has
urged peoplo throughout the county
to patronize their home stores. It has
differed from some other papers in
the county in not boosting for the
stores of any special community it
has simply sauj "buy it at home."
The Courier realizes that the more
will be the general prosperity of the
entire county.
The Courier has further suggested
that if people cannot get what they
wunt in their home store, that they
try next in the stores of the county
seut. This is also constructive "buy
ing nt home." And if the county
sent stores do not have the wares de
sired, or cannot order them, it has
been the policy of the Courier to ad
vise its readers to do their shopping
in Portland and so at least spend
their money in Oregon.
For doing its part! in the "buy it
home" campaign the Courier has ask
ed no special support from Clackamas
county merchants. It has felt that
in boosting for home trade home
ed to do to our babies during this trade in the fullest sense it was do
week. Judging from the other ling its sharo for tho countv and for
The Gancelled Qheck
(In.the course of business a bill is sometimes presented for
collection where it has already been paid.
(J This m;iy happen to you as it has to so many. Such an oc
currence is annoying and requires explanations and sometimes
the receipt.
(J You need never pay a bill twice, if you pay by check. The
check is a positive proof that you have paid the money, and
your cancelled checks are receipts for the bills you have paid.
(J Our bank offers prompt and efficient service in handling
your account.
4 Per Cent Paid on
Time Certificates
THE J5ANK OF OREGON CITY
"Oldest Bank in Clucltamas County
every community in the county. The
Courier has been liberally patronized
in the past by advertisers, because
the Courier has reached the people,
and the advertisers know it.
However, the Courier would at this
time like to call the attention of its
readers and advertisers alike to a
recent address of Herman Rosenfield,
advertising manager .of the Sears,
Roebuck company. Speaking to the
delegates of the American Ad Club,
assembled in convention, Mr. Rosen
feld said, in part:
"We have a bureau whose duty it is
to reach each week the county news
papers from all over the country.
There is not a paper of any conse
quence in our trade territory that our
bureau does not get. This bureau
looks over these papers and when we
find a town where the merchants are
not advertising in the local paper, we
immediately flood that territory with
our literature. It always brings re
sults." This is something for advertisers
to think about. And it is also some
thing for readers to think about
when they hear their local merchant
"cussing" the mail order houses.
CIVILIZATION
We live in an age of civilization.
As proof of it observe on the one
hand the war in Europe.
And on the other hand look at the
congress of these United States.
Glance also in passing at President
Woodrow Wilson. The President
realizes, probably more fully than any
other American, what a tragedy the
European war is. He has sources of
information that are closed to the
rest of us. And so keen is his ap
preciation of the futile horror of that
war that he is doing his utmost to
compose the battling armies of Eu
rope. . To us, and to many others, it looks
as if civilization had but few friends
these days, and as if President Wood
row Wilson was one of the most
staunch and able friends left. Let us
leave civilization with the President.
DO IT NOW!
Registration books will close on
April 18. There will be no opportun
ity for voters to register after that
date, except in certain peculiar cir
cumstances. It is therefore the duty
when the raid was made. The Cour-j
ier always has had, and still has, a'
high opinion of United States regu- j
lars. But the detachment at Colum-!
bus, New Mexico, must have been
very sound asleep the night the Villa
bandits stole past their- camp and
reached the city that they pillaged
and shot up.
After the regulars woke up they
did splendid execution. They not
only repelled the Mexicons, but they
pursued them so closely that many
were left on the field dead or wounded,
and much of the loot stolen by the
bandits was abandoned in their flight.
of every voter, man and woman, to j The cavalrymen redeemed themselves
register before April 18. amj in a measure blotted out the trag-
April 18 is just about a month off i edy which the carelessness of some
from the end of this week. I body at first made possible. How-
There is just about a month left ever, the fact remains that those
to register in, and during that time if
we are to have a truly representa
tive vote by the people of this county,
about 75 percent of the electors will
have to register. If they don't, the
vote this year will not represent the
wishes of the majority of the people.
It is the duty of every voter to cast
his or her ballot. This year, more
than ever, it is especially important
that American citizens should go to
the polls and express their will. Not
only is this the year of a presidential
election, but in Oregon there will be
many matters of more than usual
weight submitted to the voters.
The only way to be sure of your
vote is to register before 'April 18;
and the only way to be sure of doing
that, is to DO IT NOW.
It does not take long to register.
If you can't come to the county seat
and register in the county clerk's of
fice, you will find a deputy registrar
in your own community. It will pay
you to take the time at once to see
that your name is duly enrolled
Villa thugs never should have passed
the American line. Of course they
wont pass again, everybody will be
awake in the future. It is now only
to be regretted that they passed the
line once had sentries been awake,
there are a lot of bodies in the ceme
teries today that wouldn't have been
there. It is a pity that there was
laxity.
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THE COUNTY FAIR
Purchase of the present county fair
grounds at Canby by the county, on
account of which is to be found else
where in these columns, may not be
as ill-advised as some people think.
The purchase will save the county
money that has already been dumped
in the enterprise, and will make it
possible for the county to establish
the fair in a more central location.
It will also open a way for the estab
lishment of a county poor farm
which is very badly needed and will
enable the county court o get some
; fr 1 v
A Big Price Reduction in
Stover Engines
Now made in 1, , 2, 4 and 6 Horse
n Power and up, at prices that put this
GOOD Engine within the reach of all
See the new Vine as soon as possible
W. J. Wilson & Company
10th and MAIN STREETS, OREGON CITY, ORE.
FULL LINE OF
PUMPS, WAGONS,
IMPLEMENTS,
ETC.
What the Public
Wants to Know
By 0. W. EASTHAM, Republican
Candidate for District Attorney.
The community is not really interested inthe
office-seeker's "glad hand" or his well arranged line
of "bank". , .
The public wants an answer to fwo questions :
(1) Is he Able to "deliver the goods".
(2) Is he Determined, in Dead Earnest, to
"deliver the goods".
What does a candidate for the Republican
Nomination mean in saying "It may be necessary
to have special counsel to help out". (Letter to
the Enterprise dated Jan. 26.) Does he mean that he
may not be able to "deliver the goods' Y or does he
mean to place his 0. K. on the employment of special
counsel to assist the present District Attorney one
single fee that I know of being $250.
What does the same candidate mean (same
letter) in saying, "It may be necessary to expend
several hundred dollars a year for the purpose of
hiring detectives". Does he mean that the Sheriff
and his force of deputies may not do the work the
County pays them to do, or does he mean to place his
O. K. on .the Levings job, approved by the present
District Attorney, which cost the County about
$2500. Indeed the County has had some detective ex
perience and Oregon City has had some.
My statement, published two weeks ago, was:
"This year, as a Jair estimate, the office will cost be
tween $5000,and $6000. The amount should be $2100
and no more". The present District Attorney has
not challenged that statement.
I said that "The expense of the office will
be just $2100 if I am on the job". No loophole
there for "Expense or special counsel" or "Hire
of detectives". No chance to arrive at the same old
f 5000 result under a different system of book-keeping.
(Paid Adv. by 0; W. Eastham, Residence 620 11th Street, Oregon
City, Oregon .
Last Friday the sun was shining.
Yet some people say Friday is an un
lucky day.
The county now has a road boss
and a road engineer. The result ought
to be that the county will shortly have
some better roads.
Jokers in the county seat heaved a
dummy into the river last week and
then called the coroner. ' Some people
have odd ideas of humor.
And now some mean person has
gone and said that if the Falsarians
join the militia, that the Fallsarians'
roster will look like a sieve.
Oregon City will soon be the mec
ca for sportsmen again, and the river
near the falls will be thick with boats
and lines. Is your tackle ready?
Vermont turned down prohibition.
Maybe somebody showed the Ver
monters a picture of the Multnomah
hotel, in Portland, which closed after
Oregon went dry.
Speaking of preparedness, we note
by the government crop report that
there is more produce in the hands
of the farmers right now than ever
before in history.
Even the Booth-Kelly mill has vol
untarily raised the wages of its em
ployees, according to the Oregonian.
This is a sort of double-action repub
lican admission that times are pros
perous. Judge Gatens is quoted as having
said that "every home should have
a boss." Most of the homes with
which we are acquainted have a boss,
all right, and she is pretty steadily
on the job.
It might be appropriate to recall
at this time that there is spread on
the city records an order, issued by
Linn E. Jones when he was mayor,
that public meetings in which hysteria
played a large part must stop not
later than half past ten in the even
ing. , i
You can get the Courier for one
year for $1.00 if you pay in advance.
embroiled in it. He is suffering jibes among the voters for after April 18,
and sneers and attacks that are be- if you haven't registered, you will
yond erason, but he is holding firmly have no direct voice in the affairs of
to his course, so that the United the county, state or .nation this year.
States may' keep honorably out of the
conflict, He is working for civiliza
tion. Recently he came into conflict vith
congress. He threw down the gaunt
let, and demanded that a poll be tak
en, ino poll m congress resulted in
the President being upheld in his
course. But though congress is sup
posed to be a manifestation of a high
state of civilization, it now develops
that the members thereof didn't know
what they were voting for when their
ballotting upheld the President!.
The result was in the interest of
civilization and in the interest of the
broader humanity which the vision of
Woodrow Wilson sees. But congress
didn't know it congressmen and sen
ators admit it.
This being the case, are there any
civilized Americans, who think that
American civilization is worth pre
serving, who care to trust the desti
nies of this nation to that bunch of
congressmen?
We do not believe there are many.
We believe that in this day of world
wide upheaval and counterplot, the
real Americans would prefer to have
Woodrow Wilson keep his hold on the
helm of the ship of state, and not re
linquish it to a group of congressmen
who know no more about what thev
are doing than do the individuals who I
Hence if things do not go in the way
you think they should, you win be
return for the very great annual out
lay that is now passed out to the in
digent poor and to the lazy.
In fact, with a county poor farm,
where paupers can be worked at least
to .the extent of raising their own
responsible for your vote might have vegetables and dairy products, and
changed things. j where all can be housed in a group,
Get busy and register. Do it to- the county should save much of the
day. DO IT NOW. You will want duplication of outlay that now trickles
to vote, and the only way you can get from the treasury in the form of char-
to do this is by registering before ir.y. Also, the creation of a county
April 18. , poor farm will probably force many
! people off the lists of county relief,
MEXICO AGAIN who are now hanging on because the
bounty or the county court provides
The one bright spot in the fervid
history of the past, week around Co
lumbus, New Mexico is the fact that
them an easy living.
The Courier recently enumerated
a number of cases that are drawine
after the United States cavalary woke ! down county money and living in idle-
up and got on the job, President WU- ess. rrooaDiy these people, rather
son and the administration stood than go to the poor farm, will get
squarely behind the American soldiery out and rustle for themselves. And
and endorsed their every move. There as long as the contemplated purchase
was no hesitancy, immediate pursuit of the present fair grounds does not
of the villa bandits was taken up, carry with it the continuance of the
and this pursuit had the solid back- county fair at that location, the step
ing of the President. American honor will probably be a good one in the
was at stake, and President Wilson long run. Opponents of the scheme,
showed his enemies that when once who live in the northern part of the
the national honor was involved, no county, should take the entire plan
action could be too quick or positive, into consideration before they con-
As we say, that was the one bright demn it.
spot In the news of the massacre,1
of Americans, however, there are ; DO IT NOW!
some spots not as bright. In fact it '
is highly improbable if things could ;
have been worse had the militia, in-j
stead of an attachment of regular
army men, been guarding the border register.
Indications are that one of the
most picturesque fights of the com
ing campaign will be over the con
stable's office. Yet it isn't a job that
many people care for.
Speaking of the weather, it is a
curious coincidence that the coming
of March caused an abrupt stop in
the stream of spring poetry that was
flowing into the Courier office.
It is reported that everybody is
digging in the cellar these days in the
hopes of finding something. Such in
dustry may yet produce a fortune
it has done so once, it seems.
MONEY TO LOAN
We have several sums of money to
loan on good real estate, from $100.00
to $1,000.00.
HAMMOND & HAMMOND
ATTORNEYS
Beaver Bldg., Oregon City Ore.
MONEY TO LOAN
PAUL C. FISCHER
Lawyer
Room 2, Beaver Bldg.
Oregon City, Ore.
Geo. C. Brownell
LAWYER
Caufield Bldg.
We trust the street committee of
the city council is still investigating
the authorship of that mysterious or
dinance that was aimed at the city's
water front. They haven't reported
yet.
Oregon City
Ori'iron
REAL ESTATE
MONEY LOANED ON IMPROVED
FARMS
Mrs. Delia Etchison John Edwards
401 E. 50th. St N. Sherwood, Ore.
Phone Tabor 5805. Phone Sherwood.
Do it now. What? Register.
April 18 is the last day you can
Why wait till then?
Office phones: Main 50, A50; Res. phones, M. 2524,1715
Home 1, D251
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Office 612 Main Street
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